On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:13:31 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
I personally wouldn't use Metal-C for writing exits. Unless they are
very simple structures the DSECT conversion utility is painful due to
the ambiguous syntax of assembler data declarations. It takes a best
guess, which sometimes works
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:44:19 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
What I find the most disappoinging about that list is it forces you to
FLOAT(IEEE)! How useful is that for most assembler programs? I suppose
it's to keep the size of the runtime down
to only support functions for one floating point
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:25:27 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
At least I would like the BOOKFIND command with its cursor sensitive arguments
to keep working.
Do you really need the BOO format? Will a PDF reader with good searchable
index and BOOKFIND PDF support do too?
Too much bandwidth.
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:49:08 -0400, John Eells wrote:
Miklos Szigetvari wrote:
Just got some REXX IRXINIT dumps, and seems to me the code is not very
modern.
But backwater code that lives far away from any
frequently-traveled mainstream code path is an unlikely optimization target.
I'e
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:01:57 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
I use SoftCopy librarian to download / manage PDF bookshelves (per my last
post - for example, Tivoli since
bookmanager format is not available).
Is it ecumenical, or does it require a particular OS?
-- gil
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:27:28 +0200, Marian Gasparovic wrote:
Just to add to what John said. Client and server glossary is reversed
in X Window world. ...
No, it is not reversed. As elsewhere in the world, the server
LISTENs for a connection; the client requests to CONNECT.
It has nothing to do
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:53:22 +0300, Yifat Oren wrote:
Other utilities, such as IEBGENER. have to decompress the data set as they
are doing a record by record, logical, copy (this may not be true for IDCAMS
when using the compression interface, see II14507).
Is this done by the utility (ugh!) or
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:04:45 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
A renowned industry expert ...
[said] the 4341 might not be compatible with the 148
Not what you are looking for, but in the late 1970's, when I
was an Amdahl SE someone said that they understood that
the Amdahl was IBM-compatible, but
z/OS 1.12. The source:
/* Doc: Print the resolved pathname of each argument
*/
#include stdlib.h
/* appears to contain:
char*realpath(const char * __restrict__,
char * __restrict__);
*/
int main( int argc, char ** argv ) {
char
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:52:16 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
Also, according to the documentation you will get an EINVAL error if the
second argument (the buffer) is NULL.
I thought I saw that this had changed, perhaps at 1.13, to
implement a POSIX future direction. Alas, no; I must have
been reading
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:27:29 +, Hal Merritt wrote:
I read about such, um, issues a while back. Seems that there were more and
more shipboard systems, but each was evolving on its own way lacking a common
strategy. That means the systems were often fundamentally incompatible and
therefore
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:41:26 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In 9575668525598233.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on
04/08/2012
at 03:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
Overall, yes, but, last time I checked, no Curses; no X11.
Those aren't ASCII issues.
Agreed
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:53:34 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
http://www.idevcloud.com/Menu.htm
This is a site where you can get a i/OS (iSeries aka AS/400) ...
Oh no! Another TLA war!
-- gil
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For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:48:33 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
I would not blame PL/1 for this.
It is not OK IMHO to request the caller to set the
high order bit on the last parameter, when the number of the parameters is
fixed
(see also my GDDM example on the other post). This is not required by
any
X11 and Curses libraries. Perhaps I
didn't qualify my remark sufficiently; I had expected it to be apparent
from the context.
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 13:39:11 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote:
The IBM XL C/C++ team did a GREAT jobs with ASCII
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 08:39:17 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
I apologize, but others may find this interesting. Too expensive for me.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/usbtypewriter
Also consider:
http://xkcd.com/1031/
http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Leopard
-- gil
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:55:46 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 4/8/2012 9:46 AM, Sam Siegel wrote:
I'm trying to find the manual (by full name or number) that provides
precise definitions about pathnames (hfs and zfs) for the unix subsystem
on zos. Specifically, I'm interested in knowing the
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 11:15:55 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote:
Paul - Thanks for the tips. The code does not create any path segments.
You're welcome.
My goal here is to be able to point the user to the reference manuals so
they can determine what is appropriate for their use. It is
their
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 12:55:54 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote:
Actually it is C. The intermediate buffer is used to allow the UNICODE
service to translate to ASCII. UNICODE services need to know how much data
is being passed in. The code runs POSIX(ON), XPLINK and is compiled the
ASCII option.
And then
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 13:39:11 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote:
The IBM XL C/C++ team did a GREAT jobs with ASCII compatibility. :-)
Overall, yes, but, last time I checked, no Curses; no X11.
Sockets? I don't know.
-- gil
--
For
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:31:57 -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
However, there are indications you have been seduced by the incorrect use of
the abbreviation for what started out as VTAM's Unformatted System Services at
least two decades before UNIX System Services appeared on the IBM scene.
Don't
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:59:09 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:28:10 -0500, Dave Barry wrote:
We recently changed JES2 on a development z/OS LPAR to use seven-digit
instead of five-digit job numbers. A coworker pointed out to me what
appeared to be an increase in initiator
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 09:38:11 -0500, Ray Overby wrote:
I am not aware of native rexx support for LOAD. You could write a rexx
function in assembler. I believe if you look at the CBT web site there
is at least a single example of this.
I found something at:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:57:03 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
While z/OS is probably immune to executables being introduced from
outside, how vulnerable is a web server to outside attack (Apache,
Websphere, etc.)? Java on the server side is effectively executable
code. If dynamic SQL is allowed, I
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:09:48 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote:
*Re. Technote T1013032 *
*https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=isg3T1013032*
*(Switching From DB2 Private Protocol (PP) to DRDA Protocol Question)*
*
However SNA is no longer a strategic protocol and customers are
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:09:48 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote:
*Re. Technote T1013032 *
*https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=isg3T1013032*
*(Switching From DB2 Private Protocol (PP) to DRDA Protocol Question)*
*
However SNA is no longer a strategic protocol and customers are
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225514/As_60th_anniversary_nears_tape_reinvents_itself?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2012-03-29
...
Lemmons can write a video file to a tape; the tape then shows up
on any desktop, such as a Mac, Windows or Linux machine, and it
presents itself
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:00:15 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:21:41 GMT, MD Johnson wrote:
Does anyone know what I could look for to detect when
an SVC contains code to place the caller into and
authorized state (key 0).
You could run a GTF trace and examine all SVC calls and
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:38:33 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In 0342014919725794.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on
03/28/2012
at 09:10 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
Quite so. Which is the reason I think FTP is in error for claiming
the data contain an invalid code
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:39:26 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
WTF!? Didn't Shmuel tell us that UTF-8 contains all of Unicode?
Yes, but I said nothiong about either IBM-424 or IBM-1047. Is there an
easy way to find what code point it's choking on? Also, I thought that
you wanted to
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:13:58 +0200, R.S. wrote:
The problem is we don't believe. :-)
It's easy. Bribe the sysadmin. (FSVO access.)
W dniu 2012-03-28 22:45, Ray Overby pisze:
Yes, I believe I have a way to attack a mainframe system where I don't
have access.
-- gil
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:47:39 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
..., the UNIX epoch is simply a number. The number of seconds since 00:00:00
GMT 1 Jan 1970. It would be rather easy to convert to -mm-ddThh:mm:ss if
it weren't for the leap seconds. Which may or may not be of any interest to
you.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:55:42 -0700, Phil Smith wrote:
Tony Thigpen wrote:
I have used that method also. But, it has the same problem. Anytime you use
xedit with either (noprof or with a special, single purpose profile, the
routines are most likely now broken. It's not something that can be
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:06:30 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
I like zMan's idea for a two-sided--nanosecond and millimeter--ruler;
his notion that the availability of the second, millimeter side would
make justifying its cost easy is a really inspired piece of nonsense.
I wish I'd thought of it.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0400, Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS] wrote:
Ask your auditor to recommend one for the mainframe ;-)
That's likely not the auditor's job. But if he knows of none, it is
his prerogative to assign a failing grade.
However, what body certifies the available commercial
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:25:43 +0200, #1490;#1491;#1497; #1489;#1503;
#1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote:
The file http://gadib.tripod.com/images/ibm-424.xmit is a xmitted PDS
containing one member.
The text is in IBM-424.
The text in the line below new code is in Hebrew. IT should start
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:09:23 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote:
The reason I brought up this 'vulnerability' is that we hired a consultant
a while back to look for weaknesses. Of course they were able to logon
with a vanilla userid that had no special authority. And this is what they
did.
We all spend
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:43:18 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote:
UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding (1 to 4 Bytes/octets per character), it's
not a single byte character set. sbdataconn specifies single byte encoding.
Use site encoding=mbcs and site mbdataconn=(IBM-424,UTF-8) to specify
multibyte
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:41:50 +0200, #1490;#1491;#1497; #1489;#1503;
#1488;#1489;#1497; wrote:
I am trying to transfer a file (PDS member) from z/OS to windows, so this
shouldn't be an issue.
Is IBM-424 a multibyte CP? If not, this should be a reportable defect.
-- gil
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:09:48 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
Get it working, put it in a script (REXX, CLIST, shell script); then
one line to invoke the script. Simple.
The quote site ... earlier in the thread suggests that the OP
wanted to be able to operate the process from the PC side.
-- gil
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:57:45 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
Hebrew doesn't seem to be in UTF-8, looking here:
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
.de isn't the first place I'd look for Hebrew.
And, as Steve pointed out, UTF-8 is effectively a transfer-encoding,
not restricting the repertoire of Unicode.
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:52:45 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
I mentioned this over on RACF-L the other day, so for some of you this will be
old news.
But the time has come for me to retire and have fun with other things. I've
enjoyed the discussions here, and working with many of you to plan
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:16:32 -0700, Dick Bond wrote:
I agree with Chris Mason. IBM should have never started called it USS -
how about a simple definitive abbreviation, like zUnix. IBM adores
putting a z in front of everything (for some clueless reason) so why
should their version of Unix be
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:29:18 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
a) don't use USS since it is not an official IBM acronym for z/OS Unix
b) don't correct someone who does.
You forgot:
c) don't boast about your forays into (a) and (b).
-- gil
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:22:38 +0200, ××× ×× ××× wrote:
I tried
quote site encoding=m
quote site mbdataconn=(IBM-424,UTF-8)
and got:
504 MULTI-BYTE ENCODING NOT SUPPORTED FOR RECFM=FB
I'm curious: where might I find a sample of valid IBM-424 code
to experiment with?
(Damn Listserv!
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:38:28 -0700, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote:
-use DROP to free memory for any array that's no longer needed
But be careful. I have an example that shows that DROPping
members of a stem can actually increase memory usage.
-- gil
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:42:39 -0700, Pesce, Andy wrote:
Even though it violates everything about being Managed by SMS.
IDCAMS Delete Noscratch on a dataset that is SMS controlled will indeed
leave the
dataset on the volume.
Is this a bug or a feature?
Well, I suppose you need to be able to
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:44:16 -0400, Sevetson, Phil wrote:
Rename the cataloged version to some [newname].
Catalog the uncataloged version and rename it to some [newname2].
Rename the [newname] back to the [original name].
Won't work.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:27:43 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:59:09 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
Since the problem is that the DSN Name is enqueued upon (which is
That's not what the OP wrote. The problem is that the data set is on
an SMS-managed volume and the catalog
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:17:30 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
This may be another weird desire on my part. But I'm wondering why IBM does
not enhance the QSAM and BSAM access methods to support the OPTCD=Q and CCSID=
parameters on the DD statememt to work with datasets on media other than tape.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:53:34 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
I once greatly improved a Rexx routine exploiting the associative Rexx
array. It was some extract from a TMS report. It was originally written like
any other array with a subscript variable. And a lot of for loops.
I changed it to
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:46:47 -0500, Robert Heffner wrote:
We are finally being allowed to use Internet Service Retrieval for downloading
our software and service, and I have a general question to those who have been
using it. I have done several downloads of Shopz orders using RECEIVE
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:04:34 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
Much of my growth in this field has been slow and steady.
The Rexx associative array realization is one of the aha moments I still
remember.
You can code FORTRAN in any language. You will sometimes
be told that if your Rexx, Lisp, C++,
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:40:12 -0500, Jonathan Goossen wrote:
A way to simulate this is to accumulate the stem elements to a string and
then iterate through them.
If jobs is a string of job names...
o Sometimes you haven't control over this: the compound
may be defined by a host environment
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:54:50 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote:
The only alternative (as seen from the principle of least astonishment) I can
think of is using the explicit option NULL - assuming that value is never a
real option.
In some contexts, such an option is unjustified. Designs should
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:11:54 +0100, Marc Manuel wrote:
I've just setup the nfs server on z/OS 1.11.
From an AIX 6.3 client, I try to copy 395 mvs files, ...
cp /mnt/mvs/* /data/mvs
IKJ56220I DATA SET UDMZ.A500.TESTNFS.AR82000.C1904293 NOT ALLOCATED, TOO
MANY DA
IKJ56220I MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DATA
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:25:09 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
I can agree that OMVS segments should usually have their own directory.
It would be possible to have them share a common directory, but in that
case you would usually want to make it ready only, which would prevent some
z/OS Unix stuff from
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:19:37 +, Costin Enache wrote:
Of course. The final result looks like SHA-1, but several operations could
take place before - DES, etc. At the end it is a cryptographic operation. The
corect question would be - how are the passwords hashed, and potentially
encrypted,
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:43:45 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote:
IMHO using '*' to represent null violates the Principle of Least
Astonishment. '*' is often used in masking to represent anything,
which is a long way from null.
How about using NULL to represent null, e.g.,
thing3(option1,NULL) /* This
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:02:28 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
On 3/18/2012 9:03 AM, Ron Hawkins wrote:
And finally, my memory may be a bit dodgy nowadays, but it's my recollection
that the EOF for empty datasets was introduced so that DFSMShsm and DFSMSdss
could migrate, move and copy empty
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:18:23 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
But why not write the EOF unconditionally, ...
I don't know under what thread subject and when, but this has been
discussed on IBM-MAIN before. I'm not going to try and find it,
but you can. I'm sure there's a good reason. :-)
As
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:46:39 +, Jousma, David wrote:
I just read about that. Not sure it is too helpful, unless I am
mis-understanding it? Time changes at 02:00 local time, based on what I
read, the CICS clock would be off for the next 22 hours until the next local
midnight?:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:26:33 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
there is one case that I have not seen mentioned - in the dark
ages, under release 21 of OS/360(MVT), IEFBR14 steps on our
system abended with S322. I had to write a special exception
into IEFUTL to allow allocation to complete.
I'm
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:38:35 +0100, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
~ The system took a longer time to run a job, job step, or procedure
than the time specified in one of the following:
- The TIME parameter of the EXEC or JOB statement
- The standard time limit specified in the
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:54:06 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
Going back into the dark days of history, CICS has often done things which the
OS can also do. One thing I remember was it implemented its own version of
program fetch. It would read the directory entry for a program, allocate the
correct
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:41:32 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
Be aware that the next leap-second insertion will be at 11:59:59 UTF
on 30 June 2012.
UTF? I don't know the TLA. But I'd say UTC 23:59:59.999..., perhaps
a second later than yours.
And I know we disagree on this, but, from:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:45:35 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 14:41 -0500 on 03/13/2012, John Gilmore wrote about Leap seconds
and the Server Timer Protocol:
This is the title of a new this month IBM Techdocs White Paper,
WP101091, by Gregory Hutchison, a PDF of which can be downloaded from
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:12:07 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
The sequence
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 59s
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 60s
2012 July 1, 0h 0m 0s
will certainly appear in the transmitted sequence, but its
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:40:27 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
As John M. hinted, it does require a valid DSORG.
But why not write the EOF unconditionally, regardless of
DSORG? The only reason I can imagine not to do so is
if the programmer is alocating absolute track addresses
to recover a deleted
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:58:44 -0600, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
CICS needs a nudge to pick up the timechange - we issue a
F CICSNAME,CEMT-PERFORM RESET
Why? Couldn't this be automated with a PARM?
To each region following the automatic change (We are on Sysplex Timers)
-- gil
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 08:33:11 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Better: tilde substitution in the PATH. Where I work, user homes
are not in /u. And some people mount HOME via NFS from a system
with YA naming standard.
Is there an outstanding requirement to support UNC in z/OS Unix?
How
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:48:52 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
PATH is not only under-specified in the JCL reference, it is also
over-specified.
- Is case-sensitive. Thus, /u/joe and /u/JOE and /u/Joe define three
different files.
Is not an aspect of the PATH= parameter, it is an aspect of the HFS.
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:02:47 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
2) many historical keyword subparameters, e.g., those of the DCB=
keyword parameter, have been half promoted: they continue to be usable
as subparameters, but they may now also be coded as parameters
All DCB subparameters, or only some?
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:29:38 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
-Original Message-
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:02 AM
You saying the working directory on Z/os unix is different
than the homes?
I really, really hope that was
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:01:03 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
In order for this to work correctly, an ENTRY statement
is needed:
//SYSLMOD DD DSN=main.loadlib
//NEWMOD DD DSN=load.library.where.you.put.the.new.module
//SYSLIN DD *
INCLUDE NEWMOD(BA4C1426)
INCLUDE SYSLMOD(BA4C1976)
ENTRY
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 17:36:39 -0500, zMan wrote:
Whatever you do, you want to use SSL or equivalent. FTP is dead in the water.
Have you discussed this with the developers of, e.g., the SMP/E
RECEIVE FROMNETWORK command?
I'm waiting breathlessly for the next release.
-- gil
Firefox is telling me about:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:44:24 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Firefox is telling me about:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:54:47 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 7 March 2012 18:27, Charles Mills wrote:
Many long threads here on that one ...
What's worse, parm means two different things.
There is a limit of 100 characters on the operand of PARM=.
But I was referring to parameters in the more
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:04:40 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
Well, who's counting indeed, but my JCL reference says
The pathname: ...
- Has a length of 1 through 255 characters. ...
I stand corrected; I misread earlier in the same section:
Each directory or filename:
Is
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:03:05 +, af dc wrote:
Hello,
I need to do a tapemap for about 100 tapes (virtual volumes), I've jcl:
//V1 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=OLD,
//DSN=AL2999.SOMETH,
//
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:42:57 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht elar...@co.za wrote:
af dc wrote:
I need to do a tapemap for about 100 tapes (virtual volumes), I've jcl:
what is the best way to generate 100 jcls ??? rexx ? icetool ?
First loop is for each line containing volser and second loop is
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:19:33 +, Pate, Gene wrote:
I am amazed at the uproar over this. Is there anything that a PCFLIH backdoor
can accomplish that any AC=1 module in any APF authorized library cannot?
Is there anyone else out there that is running any vendor code for which they
have not
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:19:03 -0500, Steve Conway wrote:
Ed Jaffe said:
IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine.
I totally agree. There should also be an option to use NTP. Not every
shop needs the granularity of STP, and they damn sure don't want to pay
for functionality that
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:17:07 -0700, Mark Post wrote:
Most Linux operating systems read the hardware clock during the startup
process, and use that to set the system clock. NTP takes over from there, but
only affects the system clock, not the hardware clock. The system only tries
to set the
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:39:32 +0100, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2012-03-03 07:34, Edward Jaffe pisze:
IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine.
Or at least STP light which would allow to use ETS (NTP).
However it's NOT incluted. :-(
I like that idea.
Is the hardware associated with
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:31:55 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
On 03/02/2012 06:44 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
And the answer from those who know is
It happened during the POR last Thursday and we're talking with IBM to
figure out why a POR would do that to us.
Thanks all for your patience with YATQ
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 05:47:38 -0600, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
Sanely organized networks, even those that do not span multiple time
zones, collect and store only UTC [GMT] STCKE values.
The table involved is short; it is ordered; it can be searched using
very efficient glb-seeking binary search; this
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:08:46 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 1 March 2012 16:01, McKown, John wrote:
What would I like? A complete GNU tool chain. Also, current versions of
Perl, python, ruby, gawk, sed, grep, bash, vim, emacs(?). Of course, I
realise that IBM cannot afford to supply these
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 15:45:43 -0600, Betsy Jeffery wrote:
* The program issues MVS command to modify a CICS region (f, region-name cemt
blah, blah) via SVC 34.
* The REXX itself is not allowed (by the Info Security folks) to issue the
commands.
??? But it can call a program in some other
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:12:20 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB5A0/E.6.2
The value in the word returned by this routine is in seconds-since-1/1/1970,
but, unlike the value returned by the C library time() function and expected
by
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:53:14 -0600, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:45:11 +, Rob Scott wrote:
Obviously this assumes you know the UTC offset at the time of the LPAR
And that is exactly where it hurts... How does one know what the offset was at
the time the timestamp was taken?
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:11:06 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:47:03 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:12:20 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB5A0/E.6.2
The value in the word returned by this routine
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:07:31 -0600, Barry Merrill wrote:
FALSE:
Sanely organized networks, even those that do not span multiple time
zones, collect and store only UTC [GMT] STCKE values.
STCKE is notionally closer to TAI than to UTC in that TAI and STCKE
are continuous timescales and UTC is
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:43:02 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
Paul Gilmartin writes:
begin extract
STCKE is notionally closer to TAI than to UTC in that TAI and STCKE
are continuous timescales and UTC is discontinous. TAI and STCKE both
embody the notion of (micro)seconds since an epoch; UTC
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:35:39 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote:
So, I found that it is actually tricky to get the current jobid using REXX
in a WLM-initiated environment.
Here's a slightly patched REXX script that I found by Bill Lalonde that
will do it:
/* REXX */
/* curjobid.rexx
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:10:38 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
It works for me, but does not help the OP because he won't have my code. And,
in some cases, I've been told that some shops can only use either in-house
developed code or, in extremis, only vendor supplied code, no freeware or
unsupported
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:31:16 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
That looks overly complicated. Why not just pull it from the SSIB?
Someone shared such an example with me. It worked under TSO;
not under z/OS UNIX. I was then asked (on TSO-REXX), Why don't
you just run it under TSO, then?
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:57:44 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
Is there any straightforward way to convert an STCK value from some point in
the fairly recent (months, not decades) past to local time for the LPAR's
locale? By straightforward I mean without having to maintain my own table
of time changes
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:11:09 +, Rob Scott wrote:
If you are lucky enough to be in control of the data collection, then you
could save the CVTLDTO value in the same control block or record as the STCK
value so that you can accurately re-construct local time at a later date.
And the data may
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